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    Controlling coaching and athlete thriving in elite adolescent netballers: The buffering effect of athletes' mental toughness

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    Authors
    Gucciardi, Daniel
    Stamatis, A.
    Ntoumanis, Nikos
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Gucciardi, D. and Stamatis, A. and Ntoumanis, N. 2017. Controlling coaching and athlete thriving in elite adolescent netballers: The buffering effect of athletes' mental toughness. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. 20 (8): pp. 718-722.
    Source Title
    Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jsams.2017.02.007
    ISSN
    1440-2440
    School
    School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52537
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Objectives: The purposes of this study were to examine the association between controlling coach behaviours and athlete experiences of thriving and test the buffering effect of mental toughness on this relation. Design: A cross-sectional survey. Methods: In total, 232 female netballers aged 11 to 17 years (14.97 + 1.52) with between 1 and 15 years of experience in their sport (7.50 + 2.28) completed measures of controlling coach interpersonal style, mental toughness and thriving. Results: Latent moderated structural models indicated that (i) controlling coach behaviours were inversely related with experiences of vitality and learning; (ii) mental toughness was positively associated with psychological experiences of both dimensions of thriving; and (iii) mental toughness moderated the effect of coach's controlling interpersonal style on learning but not vitality experiences, such that the effect was weaker for individuals who reported higher levels of mental toughness. Conclusions: This study extends past work and theory to show that mental toughness may enable athletes to counteract the potentially deleterious effect of controlling coach interpersonal styles.

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